William Morrow
The Girl Who Married an Eagle
Julia Newton, a recent American college grad, attends a lecture about missions in Africa and decides she has found her…
Children of Liberty
The Bronze Horseman and its sequels have captured the imagination and hearts of millions of readers. Now, Simons has written…
The House Girl
Editors' choice
Art, slavery and the nature of freedom are the themes of Tara Conklin’s haunting and powerful novel. Lina Sparrow is…
Orphan Train
Irish-American Niamh is left an orphan in the 1920s when her family dies in a tenement fire. The self-satisfied and…
Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
Davenport-Hines has written a half-dozen of masterful biographies and histories, many of them set around the time of the Titanic’s…
Hide Me Among the Graves
In the winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a reformed prostitute, knocks on the door of John Crawford, a widowed veterinarian…
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art
Begun as a history of the color blue, this book evolves into a detective romp through Montmartre, Paris, historical haunt…
The Unseen
As in her earlier, acclaimed novel, The Legacy, author Katherine Webb designs her new story, The Unseen, around a dual…
An Unmarked Grave
In 1918, nurse Bess Crawford sees a murdered soldier amid the piles of the dead who have succumbed to influenza…
I, Iago
Editors' choice
How do you take one of literature’s most vile villains and make your readers like him? Nicole Galland begins in…
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